In practice, we will find that the value of mental health centers mainly lies in crisis intervention. The mental health center in colleges and universities is essentially a crisis intervention center.
The so-called crisis refers to when college students encounter some serious life events for them. And when they can't find a solution to the problem, there will be psychological imbalance, which is psychological crisis.
Usually in the process of work, we will locate two types of people as high-risk groups:
1. Have a tendency to hurt themselves, especially suicidal tendencies;
2. There is a tendency to hurt others and endanger society.
When these two high-risk groups have a crisis, we need to intervene in the crisis.
In fact, universities that often attach importance to mental health education are also universities with more crisis events. Otherwise, the mental health education center is easily overlooked, doing all kinds of chores and becoming only a nominal institution.
Therefore, how to effectively carry out psychological intervention in colleges and universities?
In fact, this question should be changed to "How to effectively carry out crisis intervention in colleges and universities?"
1. 1 psychological crisis prevention education system in colleges and universities
Psychological crisis prevention education in colleges and universities refers to daily teaching, community and other activities in colleges and universities. We should not only pay attention to the improvement of students' learning ability and professional skills, but also pay attention to cultivating students' ability to adjust their emotions and strong will quality, as well as the spirit of cherishing life and fearing death. So that students can form good personality characteristics and adapt to the social personality quality. Prevent the occurrence of crisis events.
(1) Actively carry out mental health education courses and special lectures for college students to popularize psychology and mental health knowledge. Make students know themselves, accept themselves, love themselves and believe in themselves, form a good psychological state, and master the basic methods and skills to adjust their emotional state and behavior.
(2) Through individual and group psychological counseling, opening psychological assistance hotline and peer psychological counseling, college students will encounter psychological problems that they can't handle. Actively seek the help of psychological counselors and adjust their mentality in time.
(3) Schools should carry out life education and establish a correct view of life and death for all teachers and students. Life education is an educational activity that promotes understanding, cherishing, respecting, cherishing, enjoying and transcending life by means of education. Schools should not only educate students, but also educate all teachers about life. Make the whole school form a campus atmosphere that respects life. Reduce the occurrence of crisis events.
1.2 college students' psychological crisis early warning system
The early warning system of psychological crisis in colleges and universities is to discover potential psychological crisis events in time through various channels, evaluate individuals or groups who may have psychological crisis, and make early warning notification layer by layer. So that relevant institutions and individuals can take corresponding measures in advance to reduce or prevent the occurrence of psychological crisis.
(1) Institutions such as the Student Affairs Office and the College Students' Mental Health Education Center screen the mental health status of college students every year. Timely discover students with poor mental health and potential personnel who may have psychological crisis, and conduct psychological interviews and counseling when necessary.
(2) Psychological committee members of each class and dormitory directors of each dormitory should pay attention to observing students' daily psychological state. Report any problems in time.
(3) Counselors, class teachers and teachers of all subjects. Mental health related knowledge should be mastered. In teaching and daily life. We should not only teach students professional knowledge, but also be good at observing and discovering students' mental health. If problems are found, students should report them in time.
(4) ensure the openness and quick response of the psychological crisis notification system step by step. The Student Affairs Office timely organizes relevant personnel to talk, consult and help with life. Timely and effective intervention for potential psychological crisis personnel to avoid the occurrence of psychological crisis events.
1.3 college students' psychological crisis coping system
The coping system of psychological crisis in colleges and universities is in a period of psychological crisis. All departments of the school cooperate with each other to intervene and deal with psychological crisis events at the first time to reduce or reduce the adverse consequences caused by psychological crisis events. The coping system of psychological crisis in colleges and universities is the most critical part of the whole psychological crisis intervention system.
(1) Schools should have perfect psychological crisis response plans. When a crisis occurs, this plan will be implemented immediately, and the coping strategies of school psychological crisis intervention, the responsibilities and division of labor of various departments, and the psychological crisis intervention process will be clarified, so that all departments can enter the state of preparing for war in the shortest time.
(2) The leading group of psychological intervention was immediately put in place, and the professional psychological crisis response personnel were quickly put in place. According to the emergency plan and the progress of specific events. All departments and relevant personnel make the fastest response, cooperate and deal with crisis events.
(3) Establish a cooperative working mechanism among universities, hospitals, public security departments and family members, in case of serious psychological crisis, especially life crisis. Make full use of the soothing role of family members and the professional ability of negotiators to alleviate the crisis. Send students to the hospital for emergency treatment if necessary. To ensure a proper solution to the crisis.